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crust

[kruhst] / krʌst /


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The signature dish, made with sharp, slow-melting Kolot cheese, comes in a crust that’s been liberally basted with butter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ariel is also covered in fractures, ridges, and grabens, areas where sections of the crust have dropped below the surrounding terrain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

As those sections of crust descended, they released their water into the mantle.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Tata has been mining soda ash for years in Lake Magadi, a vast area often covered by a whitish salt crust.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Gebu came down the stairs again almost immediately, carrying a packet of bread loaves which he had evidently bought on his way home, for they smelled deliciously of new-baked crust.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

In one session, Sylvia mentioned: “On the weekends, I usually just make a meal out of the bread crusts I cut off my kids’ sandwiches.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Crusted scabies, previously known as Norwegian scabies, causes a "scaly rash and thickened crusts of skin", external containing thousands of mites, and can be due to reduced immunity, although that is not always the case.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Still, executives expressed optimism during the earnings call about things like Totino’s pizza crusts and seasoned pizza rolls, as well as Asian- and Mexican-inspired snacks.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

Maybe it’s homemade peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made on pillowy Wonder Bread, with the crusts cut off.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

I imagined the fufu, dried to crusts by the harmattan winds, scratching the inside of Papa-Nnukwu’s throat as he swallowed.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Constable’s famously crusted, white-flecked surfaces, as seen in this painting’s coarsely textured beams and choppy canal water, and in its windswept, cloud-filled skies, became touchstones in his work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Mrs Pyrah had been trying to avoid a puddle near a pond by walking through an area that she thought had a "dry crusted top".

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025

They were dehydrated and short of breath, some with eyes crusted shut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

It heats to 1450°F, allowing you to expertly grill a fabulously crusted steak without ever leaving the comfort of your heated apartment.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024

The thick soles of his own high shoes are crusted with white and there is white in the stitching and lace-eyes, and under his nails and in the cracked chapped skin of his hands.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

The spots fill up with fluid and become blisters before crusting over to form scabs, which eventually drop off and clear up.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

Two days later the reaction arrived: redness, itching, oozing, crusting and small, fluid-filled blisters up and down his legs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025

In “Downton” Fellowes wrote all the best set-ups and punchlines for Violet, inspired by Smith’s near-flawless track record with crusting each phrase with the perfect sear.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024

But not just any rust stain: This one had really hit its mature stride, crusting corroded metal onto the unsealed paver surface — sort of like iron-oxide barnacles.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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